the Outlanders' labours, and
the taxes exacted from them by the Transvaal government to L4,400,000
(in 1899). Thus they have increased in the proportion of 1 to 25. "If
the admirers of the Transvaal government, who place no confidence in
documents emanating from English sources, will take the trouble to open
the _Almanack de Gotha_, they will there find the financial report for
1897. There they will read that of these L4,400,000, salaries and
emoluments amount to nearly one-quarter--we will call it
L1,000,000,--that is, L40 per head per adult Boer, for it goes without
saying that in all this the Outlanders have no share. If we remember
that the great majority of the Boers consist of farmers who do not
concern themselves at all about the Administration, and who consequently
get no slice of the cake, we can judge of the size of the junks which
President Kruger and the chiefly foreign oligarchy on which he leans
take to themselves. The President has a salary of L7,000--(the President
of the Swiss Confederation has L600)--and besides that, what is called
"coffee-money." This is his official income, but his personal resources
do not end there. The same table of the _Almanack de Gotha_ shows a sum
of nearly L660,000 entitled "other expenses." Under this head are
included secret funds, which in the budget are stated at a little less
than L40,000 (more than even England has), but which always exceed that
sum, and in 1896 reached about L200,000. Secret Service Funds!--vile
name and viler reality--should be unknown in the affairs of small
nations. Is not honesty one of the cardinal virtues which we should
expect to find amongst small nations, if nowhere else? What can the
chief of a small State of 250,000 inhabitants do with such a large
amount of Secret funds?

"We can picture to ourselves what the financial administration of the
Boers must be in this plethora of money, provided almost entirely by the
hated Outlander. An example may be cited. The Raad were discussing the
budget of 1898, and one of the members called attention to the fact that
for several years past advances to the amount of L2,400,000 had been
made to various officials, and were unaccounted for. That is a specimen
of what the Boer _regime_ has become in this school of opulence."[36] M.
Naville continues:--"We do not consider the Boers, as a people, to be
infected by the corruption which rules the administration. The farmers
who live far from Pretoria have prese